Dramas dominate this month's new releases of television series released on DVD.
From Dallas to Beverly Hills to Hawaii to outer space, April TV DVD releases will take audiences to exciting situations in exciting locations. In addition, The Paper Chase finally makes it to DVD, and Star Trek: The Original Seriescomes out on Blu-ray.
Television on DVD Available April 7
Beverly Hills 90210: Seventh Season
This DVD includes a full season of episodes from the popular drama about the young, rich, and beautiful of Beverly Hills, California.
Starring Jason Priestley, Luke Perry, Shannen Doherty, Tori Spelling, Jennie Garth
Discs: 7
Run Time: 1413 minutes
Rating: Not Rated
Dynasty: Season Four, Vol. 1
This DVD includes a portion of the fourth season of episodes from the popular 1980s nighttime soap opera. The rest of the season will be released later in different volumes.
Starring John Forsythe, Linda Evans, Joan Collins, Pamela Bellwood, John James
Discs: 3
Run Time: 656 minutes
Rating: Not Rated
The Paper Chase: Season One
This highly acclaimed television drama was based on the movie, and debuted in 1978 starring John Houseman as an intimidating professor.
Also starring James Stephens, Tom Fitzsimmons, James Keane
Discs: 6
Run Time: 1080 minutes
Rating: G
Television on DVD Available April 14
Wings: The Final Season
The last season of the popular comedy series about a small airport.
Starring Tim Daly, Steven Weber, Crystal Bernard, Amy Yasbeck, Tony Shalhoub
Discs: 3
Run Time: 539 minutes
Rating: Not Rated
Additional Information: Also available on April 14, Wings: The Complete Series: A 27-disc box set with every show from the entire series.
Knots Landing – The Complete Second Season (1980)
This nighttime soap opera follows the drama surrounding five families in a small California community.
Starring Jonathan Goldsmith, Michele Lee, Constance McCashin, Ted Shackelford, Joan Van Ark
Discs: 4
Run Time: 882 minutes
Rating: Not Rated
Television on DVD Available April 21
Hawaii Five-O: Sixth Season
This DVD contains the entire sixth season of the long-running police drama.
Starring Jack Lord, James MacArthur, Kam Fong, Herman Wedemeyer, Harry Endo
Discs: 6
Run Time: 1201 minutes
Rating: Not Rated
Dallas: The Complete Eleventh Season
More greed, corruption, and power plays among the oil-rich Ewing family of Texas.
Starring Larry Hagman, Patrick Duffy, Linda Grey, Barbara Bel Geddes, Howard Keel
Discs: 3
Run Time: 1800 minutes
Rating: Not Rated
Television on DVD Available April 28
Star Trek: The Original Series – Season 1 (Blu-ray)
This DVD contains the entire first season of the original Star Trek series that launched the enormously successful television and movie franchise about space travelers who seek out new horizons and bravely go where no one has gone before.
Starring William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Nichelle Nichols, James Doohan, Walter Koenig
Discs: 7
Run Time: 1460 minutes
Rating: Not Rated
The Waltons – The Complete Ninth Season
John-Boy and the rest of the Walton family are presented in the final season of the popular 1970s family drama.
Starring Jon Walmsley, Judy Norton-Taylor, Mary Beth McDonough, Eric Scott, David W. Harper
Discs: 3
Run Time: 1072 minutes
Rating: Not Rated
Additional Information: Richard Thomas and Michael Learned had left the show by season nine.
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